Observed arrival · 2026-09-24

The web’s fonts, counted over time

fontsovertime.com Visit website

Editorial interest 86/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A weekly census of homepage typefaces, with rankings, category views, font histories and a feed of sites that switched.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-24 issue.

For: Web designers and typography researchers
Worth noticing: Historical charts follow a fixed set of 1,629 sites; earlier points are estimates drawn from web archives.

Field notes

The page separates free fonts, commercial fonts it says it cannot license, and system fonts that depend on the visitor’s device. Its cohort controls include groups such as Y Combinator, Hacker News, government, universities, and indie blogs. Historical comparisons use a fixed subset rather than the full ranking, and the chart marks archive-derived estimates separately from the weekly crawl.

Observed signals

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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.

○OpenPublic substance visible

✦PrettyNotable craft visible

●ProPolished or operationally mature

◎NicheUnusually specific use

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